that’s really too bad, because a devotion to the rosary can be the answer to so many struggles in our 21st-century world. Our society today faces growing secularism and the disappearance of faith from the public

alleluia, alleluia! Akathist Hymn to Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos This hymn is traditionally attributed to St. Romanos the Melodist (d. 560) who composed it for the feast of the Annunciation in 532, after the

1382, Prince Vladislaus II of Opole brought it to Jasna Gora and entrusted its care to the hermits of St. Paul, who are still in charge of it. Since then, the holy icon has never left the altarpiece of the

chaste, the earthly heavenly. And whence comes this change, save by the right hand of the Most High? St Leo the Great - Sermon 27, On the Feast of the Nativity, VII

this new method of prayer - when adopted and properly carried out as instituted by the Holy Father St. Dominic - piety, faith, and union began to return, and the projects and devices of the heretics to

once she has grabbed his collar with her rosary!" The mainspring of the entire apostolic ministry of St. Louis de Montfort, his great secret for attracting souls and giving them to Jesus, was his devotion

captivity, and the angels are glad at the restoration of their shattered domain." Excerpt from a sermon of St. Anselm (Oratio 52; PL 158, 955-956).

last thing we pray each night is the “Salve Regina,” calling upon the Queen of Heaven for mercy. As St. Thomas Aquinas put it, “As sailors are guided by a star to the port, so are Christians guided to heaven

way to obtain graces from the Virgin Mary Let's look at a detail of the vision that the French nun St. Catherine Labouré had on November 27, 1930, in the Rue du Bac convent of the Daughters of Charity

1953) “As man is soul and body, Christ is God and Man” In a few sermons for the feast of the Nativity, St. Augustine highlights the fact that God willed that Mary would remain a virgin through and after c